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Fitchburg Railroad Company [Curve in the rail line]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05235.09.04 Author/Creator: Fitchburg Railroad Company Place Written: East Deerfield, Mass. Type: Photograph Date: 1893 ca. Pagination: 1 cyanotype ; 12.3 x 17.4 cm. Order a Copy

Composite photograph [more than one negative] of curved tracks shown in GLC05235.09.01 and .02, but the background has been altered to exclude the rockface and a third set of tracks now branches off into the river. Identical to GLC05235.09.03.

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